Huge amounts of BA US First Class Avios availability released – for the next 45 days

In our article on the Avios sale yesterday, we discussed some of the weird patterns that we had seen in Avios availability since an IT update on 1st July.

This initially led to no First Class seats being made available, anywhere.

As I said yesterday, availability had started to come back. Last night it came in a flood – but only for the next 45 days and only, I think, on US routes.

Here is a SeatSpy screenshot of First Class availability to/from New York, as at 10.30pm last night:

There are a LOT of seats available on some flights. 6th August, for example, has 4 x First seats on one JFK flight and 5 x First seats on another, plus one or two seats on a further three flights.

Here is Boston:

Here is Los Angeles:

The pattern is similar on the other US routes with First Class (this is a HfP-created list, it may not be 100% accurate):

• Atlanta
• Boston
• Chicago
• Houston
• Los Angeles
• Miami
• Nashville
• New Orleans
• New York
• Pittsburgh
• Portland, Oregon
• San Diego
• San Francisco
• Seattle
• Washington DC

However, when I used SeatSpy to look at non-US routes – Johannesburg, Dubai etc – there has been no mass opening of seats.

If this availability is still there when you read this on Friday morning, you may want to jump in if you want to give British Airways First Class a try this summer.

You can read more about British Airways First in our guide here, albeit this article is three years old. Note that the seat pictured at the top of this article is not actually flying yet!